The best of all the teuthides are those Caught near Pierian Dium, near the stream Of Baphyras. And in Ambracia's port You will see mighty shoals of this same fish. And Alexis, in his Eretrian, introduces a cook speaking in this way— Teuthides, thornbacks, rays, and fat Anchovies, lumps of meat, and paunches too. I took the teuthides, cut off their fins, Adding a little fat; I then did sprinkle Some thin shred herbs o'er all for seasoning. There is also a sort of cake or confectionary called τευθὶς, which is mentioned by Iatrocles, in his book on the Art of making Bread, as Pamphilus quotes. 131. Then there is the sea-pig. Epicharmus, in his Hebe's Wedding, says— There were hyænides, buglossi, There was the harp-fish too in numbers. And he also calls them not only ὑαινίδες, but also ὔες in the following lines— There were too chalcides and sea-pigs (ὔες), And sea-hawks, and the fat sea-dog. [Sidenote: FISH.] Unless, indeed, when he uses the word ὗς here, he means the same animal which is also called κάπρος, the sea-boar. But Numenius, in his Art of Fishing, enumerates plainly enough some sort of ὕαινα or plaice, when he says— The cantharis, hyæna, and the mullet. And Dionysius, in his Cookery Book, also speaks of the hyæna or plaice. And Archestratus, that prince of cooks and epicures says,— At Ænus or at Potus buy the sea-pig, Which some men call the digger of the sand, Then boil his head, adding no seasoning, But only water, stirring it full often, And add some pounded hyssop; if you want Anything more, pour on some pungent vinegar; Steep it in that, then eat it with such haste As if your object were to choke yourself. But roast its neck, and all its other parts. And perhaps it is the sea-pig which Numenius, in his Art of Fishing, calls the psamathis, or sand-fish, when he says— Sometimes the fierce carcharias, and sometimes The psamathis, delighting in the surf. 132. Then there is the hyces. Callimachus, in his epigrams, calls the hyces the sacred fish, in these lines— And he does deem the sacred hyces god. And Numenius, in his Art of Fishing, says— The spar, or the gregarious hyces; Or phagrus, ever wand'ring near the rocks. And Timæus, in the thirteenth book of his Histories, speaking of the town in Sicily, (I mean the town of Hyccara,) says that this town derived its name from the circumstance of the first man who arrived at the place finding abundance of the fish called hyces, and those too in a breeding condition; and they, taking this for an omen, called the place Hyccarus. But Zenodotus says that the Cyrenæans call the hyces the erythrinus. But Hermippus of Smyrna, in his essay on Hipponax, when he speaks of the hyces, means the iulis; and says that it is very hard to catch; on which account Philetas says— Nor was the hyces the last fish who fled.